Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...

Unicode 10.0 adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 139 scripts, as well as 56 new emoji characters.

Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols, including the long-awaited middle finger.

Unicode 7.0 adds 2,834 new characters to the existing list of 110,187 characters defined by Unicode 6.3, ... new "lesser-used and historic scripts," and extended support "for written languages ...

The new standard brings users 838 new Unicode characters, including five new scripts. Version 14 also has 37 new emojis, including handshakes and heart hands, a melting face, pointing fingers ...

Unicode has been the default standard for representation and handling of text. Emoji, as a text-based representation of emotions, have been a part of Unicode ever since 2010 from the release of ...

A hippo emoji, announced Wednesday by Unicode Consortium, is among more than 150 new symbols coming to iPhone and Android smartphones in 2018.

The smiley face and heart icons popular in text messages predate today's smartphones. To trace their roots, you have to go back to Japan in the mid-1990s, when pagers were all the rage with teens.